Apartment Staff Tried Contacting Former Dallas Cowboy Marion Barber Multiple Times Before Finding Him

By Julia Falcon, CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

July 14, 2022

According to the Collin County Medical Examiner, former Dallas Cowboy Marion Barber died of a heat stroke in his Frisco apartment on June 1. Based on information from his autopsy and police incident report, Barber was in his apartment for at least two weeks before police found him.

The incident report from the Frisco Police Department says that on May 11, a neighbor of Barber put in a service request due to water leaking into their apartment from Barber's. That day, an employee of the apartment complex shut off water and scheduled another service visit to fix the issue the next day.

The apartment complex could not make contact with Barber on May 12 or May 13, the report said. The doors at Barber's apartment were dead bolted from the inside, indicating someone was there. The apartment complex employee said numerous phone calls were made to Barber in an effort to make contact, but didn't get a response for about two weeks. Eventually, calls were going directly to voicemail, indicating the phone had died.

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